Services
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Samples Assignment Service
The biobank handle the biological samples requests and its associated clinical data. The tasks realized are:
- Request reception.
- The proceeding to the biobank external committee's (Scientific and Ethic Committees).
- Consulting on the documentation required.
- Resolution communication to the applicant.
- Elaboration and sending of the biological material transfer agreements (MTA).
- Sample and its information associated preparation and transport to external centres.
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Register and Custody Services
- Sample reception
- Management of project collections, research lines collections and biobank collections (samples, documentation and data associated).
- Research lines collections register to the ISCIII electronic platform.
- Storage and traceability of biological human samples of several collections.
- Real-time monitoring of the refrigeration equipment. Customer service 24h for incidences, alarms, etc.
- Historical control temperature reports of the refrigeration equipment.
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Advisory Service
- Consulting services regarding the creation of new collections (samples and associated data).
- Coordinate sample collections in multicentre studies.
- Coding, labelling, transportation.
- Ethic and legal aspects of collection development.
- Support the research of samples in other biobanks.
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Other Platforms and Services available in IMIM
Cryopreservation and sample processing service
- Experimental design advisory
- Coding and labelling
- Serum and plasma isolation.
- Peripheral Blood lymphocytes purification and cryopreservation
- Cryopreserved and paraffin-embedded tissue processing.
- Basic histological staining
Laser Capture Microdissection
- Advisory services towards self-reliance in the use of ARCTURUS XT™
- Technical support in processing complex samples
- Operating under self-service
Genomic Platform (MARGenomics)
- Experimental design advisory
- DNA and RNA purification in different samples (Blood, frozen or paraffin-embedded tissue...)
- DNA and RNA quality (Quantification and integrity)
- qPCR
- Microarrays
- Next Generation Sequencing.
- Data analysis